Eolian evidence from the Chinese Loess Plateau: The onset of the Late Cenozoic Great Glaciation in the Northern Hemisphere and Qinghai-Xizang Plateau uplift forcing

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 258-271

  An, Zhisheng ^a   Wang, Sumin ^b   Wu, Xihao ^c   Chen, Mingyang ^a   Sun, Donghuai ^a   Liu, Xiuming ^d   Wang, Fubao ^e   Li, Li ^a   Sun, Youbin ^a   Zhou, Weijian ^a   Zhou, Jie ^a   Liu, Xiaodong ^f   Lu, Huayu ^a   Zhang, Yunxiang ^g   Dong, Guangrong ^a   Qiang, Xiaoke ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^g NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

East Asian monsoon evolution; Eolian deposits of Loess Plateau; Great Glaciation in the Northern Hemisphere; Late Cenozoic; Qinghai Xizang Plateau uplift

Indexed keywords

EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; MAGNETIZATION; PALEOCLIMATE;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

EID: 0032880768     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02878963     Document Type: Article

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